[brudgers]

The reason for ASP.NET is that it was what Atwood and Spolsky knew. It also helped that they knew SQL-Server scales well vertically. It was a good choice then and would be a good choice today.

Stack Overflow was able to grow huge because it was built on the Microsoft stack. For a long time it ran on a single database server...a big box with lots and lots of disks and RAM. Because it was a business from the beginning, they were willing to pay for sound technology. They could do so because they were adequately capitalized.

Good luck.

[OmegaPG]

I'm thinking of using Ruby On Rails though worried about scaling problems. I am already having problems with our another website which get just hundred thousand unique visitors only.

I will explore some other frameworks too. Most likely I will go with mongo rather than postgres.

[claudiug]

mongo is perfect /s

issues with hundred thousand unique visitors only. i also have this issues using heroku at 2.5GB

[jf22]

What's amazing is that .NET has only gotten better since then. I remember hearing about Atwood talk about tools he built himself that are more or less baked into the ASP.NET now.